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We investigate chiral emission and the single-photon scattering of spinning cavities coupled to a meandering waveguide at multiple coupling points. It is shown that nonreciprocal photon transmissions occur in the cavities-waveguide system,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-25 Wenxiao Liu , Yafen Lin , Jiaqi Li , Xin Wang

Optical non-reciprocity, a phenomenon that allows unidirectional flow of optical field is pivoted on the time reversal symmetry breaking. The symmetry breaking happens in the cavity optomechanical system (COS) due to non uniform radiation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 Muhib Ullah , Xihua Yang , Li-Gang Wang

Nonreciprocity means that the transmission of a signal depends on its direction of propagation. Despite vastly different platforms and underlying working principles, the realisations of nonreciprocal transport in linear, time-independent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 Clara C. Wanjura , Jesse J. Slim , Javier del Pino , Matteo Brunelli , Ewold Verhagen , Andreas Nunnenkamp

The ability to control the direction of scattered light in integrated devices is crucial to provide the flexibility and scalability for a wide range of on-chip applications, such as integrated photonics, quantum information processing and…

As superconductor quantum technologies are moving towards large-scale integrated circuits, a robust and flexible approach to routing photons at the quantum level becomes a critical problem. Active circuits, which contain parametrically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 A. Metelmann , H. E. Türeci

Chiral quantum optics has attracted considerable interest in the field of quantum information science. Exploiting the spin-polarization properties of quantum emitters and engineering rational photonic nanostructures has made it possible to…

Engineering deterministic photonic gates with simple resources is one of the long-standing challenges in photonic quantum computing. Here, we design a passive conditional gate between co-propagating photons using an array of only two-level…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-13 Tomás Levy-Yeyati , Carlos Vega , Tomás Ramos , Alejandro González-Tudela

We address routing of classical and quantum information over quantum network, and show how to exploit chirality to achieve nearly optimal and robust transport. In particular, we prove how continuous time chiral quantum walks over a minimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Alberto Bottarelli , Massimo Frigerio , Matteo G. A. Paris

Recently, it was shown that quantum interference in a system containing a polarized and unpolarized emitter can allow directional emission of photons into a circulating cavity. Here, we ask whether high directionality of photon emission in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Ivan Saychenko , Robert Weiss , Rita Veilande , Scott Parkins , Mark Sadgrove , Sandro Wimberger

We investigate photon tunneling in a pair of coupled inverted circular split-ring microwave resonators with four discrete chiral orientations. By varying the spacing between the resonators, we observe strong modulation of the transmission…

We investigate the routing of a single-photon in a modulated cavity optomechanical system, in which the cavity is driven by a strong coupling field, and the mechanical resonator (MR) is modulated with a weak coherent field. We show that,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-27 Jun-Hao Liu , Ya-Fei Yu , Zhi-Ming Zhang

Chiral light-matter interaction between photonic nanostructures with quantum emitters shows great potential to implement spin-photon interfaces for quantum information processing. Position-dependent spin momentum locking of the quantum…

Quantum gates are crucial for processing quantum information, but implementing them in a photonic platform poses unique challenges due to the peculiar way photons propagate and interfere. Here, we examine quantum photonic gates that utilize…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 S. Ali Hassani Gangaraj , Dan T Nguyen

Quantum Key Distribution has become a mature quantum technology that has outgrown dedicated links and is ready to be incorporated into the classical infrastructure. In this scenario with multiple potential nodes, it is crucial having…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Lidia Ruiz , Juan Carlos Garcia-Escartin

Distributed quantum networks will allow users to perform tasks and to interact in ways which are not possible with present-day technology. Their implementation is a key challenge for quantum science and requires the development of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-21 Andreas Reiserer , Gerhard Rempe

We study the coherent transport of one or two photons in a 1D waveguide chirally coupled to a nonlinear resonator. Analytic solutions of the one-photon and two-photon scattering is derived. Although the resonator acts as a non-reciprocal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-10 Jin-Lei Tan , Xun-Wei Xu , Jing Lu , Lan Zhou

In recent years, photon routing has garnered considerable research activity due to its key applications in quantum networking and optical communications. This paper studies the single photon routing scheme in many-emitter disordered chiral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Nishan Amgain , Imran M. Mirza

All-linear-optical scheme for fully featured quantum router is presented. This device directs the signal photonic qubit according to the state of one control photonic qubit. In the introduction we formulate the list of requirements imposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-01 Karel Lemr , Karol Bartkiewicz , Antonín Černoch , Jan Soubusta

Photon polarization serves as an essential quantum information carrier in quantum information and measurement applications. Routing of arbitrarily polarized single photons and polarization-entangled photons is a crucial technology for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Pengfei Wang , Soyoung Baek , Masahiro Yabuno , Shigehito Miki , Hirotaka Terai , Fumihiro Kaneda

The merger between integrated photonics and quantum optics promises new opportunities within photonic quantum technology with the very significant progress on excellent photon-emitter interfaces and advanced optical circuits. A key missing…